Re: Appreciation / Financial support

[Gilles Sadowski]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:03:53PM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:35 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> David Nalesnik already did this:
> >> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=838
> >>
> >>> I think the issue at this point is not LilyPond's lack of ability to
> >>> do this or that,
> >>> but rather the lack of a vibrant cookbook culture like Python has.
> >>
> >> I think you're right.
> >
> > It is a bit more than that.  A cookbook is nice (and we have excellent
> > cooks here), but of more importance is a standard cook you can hand it
> > to.  Namely a sort of module system.  A place where you can drop things
> > in, call them by name, and they will come.  Copy&paste jobs are nice,
> > but a standard place where things can be called from, and maintained and
> > improved by someone else, beats that.

I guess that you mean something akin to
  http://www.cpan.org/
  http://www.ctan.org/search/


Regards,
Gilles

> 
> Indeed!  We need a standard cookbook and a cookbook standard.
> I hope that GLISS will help with this.
> And, of course, your continous effort is angled toward these issues -
> i appreciate that!
> 
> cheers,
> Janek
>